Elon Musk publicly announces the founding of xAI

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Elon Musk publicly announced the founding of xAI. The company was founded on Mar 9, 2023, with 11 initial researchers

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The starting point of a new frontier lab made up of people from DeepMind, OpenAI and Google. The list of founding members follows Wikipedia; an official xAI announcement has not been checked

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